Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
The principal draw here is David Geringas’s reflective and deeply affecting version of the third of Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder, ‘Ich bin...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2014
The 20-year-old French cellist Edgar Moreau, silver medallist at the 2011 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, launches his recording career with...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014
David Popper (1843-1913) was a Bohemian cellist whose work as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher was lauded all over...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2014
Mendelssohn’s music for cello and piano runs the full gamut, from simple lyrical pieces to large-scale Beethovenian sonata structures. This...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2012
Anyone familiar with the repertory played by string quartets at weddings will have heard the clever and idiomatic popular song...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2012
The Wayward Sisters are an edgy new American ensemble specialising in Baroque music. Sisters in spirit maybe – their trusty...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2014
First off, it’s worth saluting this young trio for making its CD debut with music as non-commercial as this. The...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2014
Vijay Iyer is the newly installed Franklin D and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts at Harvard. His background is...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014
As recently as the March issue I was pondering the thought processes involved in choosing a 60-plus-minute recital of Haydn’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2014
The booklet-note by no means downplays the promise of this disc. ‘One will discover with stupefaction an authentic masterpiece,’ it...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
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‘What emerges is a sense of a musician of true grit and principle, one who fought for what she...
Andrew Farach-Colton on the Channel Classics recordings of Pieter Wispelwey
Rob Cowan immerses himself in collections devoted to three composers and a quartet
David Gutman welcomes two collections released to celebrate the conductor’s career
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